Because I'm sure health costs will go down when Pharma can do what it wants, I mean obviously its the FDA keeping all these drugs at insanely high prices by not catering to Pharma's every need.
They are preventing international competition on pricing, which is why you are not allowed to import prescription drugs, for personal use, from much cheaper pharmacies in Canada, even though they are supplied by the same companies, or even manufactured in the U.S..
So Pharma is pretty much doing what it wants right now, and deregulating the drug market by stopping the revolving door between the FDA and Pharma would be one of the steps necessary to prevent the FDA from passing such regulations.
Allow reprocessing of spent fuel. France, UK, India, and Russia manage to do it. Might be more expensive but it gets rid of long term storage issues and drastically reduces long term environmental risk.
And we already have a mothballed plant to do it.
We're just not doing it because of an executive order by Jimmy Carter, who was convinced that reprocessed fuel would all be weapons grade (depends on how much reprocessing you do, actually; you can stop before you reach that point), and that as a result, it would contribute to nuclear proliferation.
Seems to have worked with North Korea. Oh. Snap. It *didn't* work with North Korea. Jimmy Carter's "bad"...
i can agree that cultural heritage isn't the same thing as a racial one. but it's still nothing close to the acquired trait of wealth.
It is, when you are talking about "the trappings of wealth" vs. "the trappings of culture".
Both are forms of self-identification to the larger society. You don't *have* to engage in self-identification, whereas with race, you can't *not* engage in self-identification, without being a hermit or some other kind of recluse. Also, culture can be acquired.
The MX record MUST point at geekmail.io, even if mail and other services share the same IP address.
The IP address of a mail transport agent MUST NOT have any role other than mail transport.
Other (please specify)
You are misrepresenting my staatement by giving me a choice between three items which I did not address, nor do I care about.
The Canonical name of the machine (the forward address) and the IP address delegation (the reverse address MUST match.
This guarantees that two authoritative sources agree that the machine is who it says it is, rather than having been spoofed.
It really doesn't matter if that's "geekmail.io" or "mail.geekmail.io", the things *MUST* match, or most anti-SPAM systems since circa 1997 are going to reject email from them.
If someone can't set up their forward and reverse addresses for their designated MX system correctly, they are unable to tell the difference between a CNAME record and an A record. If that's the case, it's doubtful they could correctly set up TXT records correct for SPF, or set up their signing certs for DNSSEC correctly, either.
your issue is likely that you havent set up your dns security records and spf correctly
To which "dns security records" do you refer?
Most likely he's referring to the fact that The blog site identifies the person doing the "anonymous" complaining as Jody Ribton, and if we look through the cached articles where he's talking about setting up his mail server, we see he's calling his service "GeekMail", and he's futze uf the PTR record such that it doesn't match the SMTP banner:
Notice that the reverse record is not pointing to a reverse name of "mail.geekmail.io", but is instead pointing to "geekmail.io".
So his forward and reverse records do not match.
Further, looking up his IP address: http://www.anti-abuse.org/mult... We can see that he isn't being RBL'ed, so it's just that he's screwed the pooch on his DNS setup.
I'd check the rest of the setup, but it's "game over" because of the inaddr.arpa entry being wrong.
Did you even read the article? There's not much more than the summary, but there he does make note that reverse DNS and SPF records, among other things, were setup:
I've done this before,...: not on any blacklists, reverse DNS set up, SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies in place, etcetera. (Side note: mail-tester.com and Port25 are great for checking your setup.)
They also want them to enroll in join Return Path's Sender Score Certified Email program, update your Junk Email Reporting Program (JMRP) account with the new IPs (this is a free Microsoft account you have to sign into in order to enter your IPs). They don't want them using dynamic IPs. They want them to go to the Sender and ISP Services (since they count as an ISP, given what they are attempting to do: clone fastmail).
It'd be useful if they provided the 421/550 error codes from attempts to send mail to Hotmail, in order to identify the subcodes to see where they've gone wrong.
P.S.: They may also be being screwed by their antivirus software inserting headers which Microsoft is not prepared to trust.
It is called the "Dunning-Kruger" effect and it is well-established.
Otherwise known as the "You kids get off my lawn, unless you have more letters after your name than I do" effect, or the "How to be a condescending expert" effect. There's a reason they won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for the paper. The fundamental presumption is that, even knowing of the effect, you will not be able to avoid it, and therefore your opinion should be discarded.
Give away all your money, get a job at Walmart and join the fight for $15 and hour and a union.
You are *DRASTICALLY* more likely to be successful in unionizing Walmart by *NOT* giving away all your money, and instead funding the campaign towards unionization of Walmart. People with money have clout; people making $15/hour generally do not.
You are not very bright if you can't immediately discern the difference between an intrinsic characteristic, i.e. racial / cultural heritage, with an acquired trait that is easily changeable (being rich).
I was personally with you until you threw in "cultural heritage".
Racial: you generally can't hide (although I would challenge most people to discern the difference between a Palestinian and a Jew, without culturally mandated clothing, or being Arabic or Jewish themselves; if you have the same matrilineal mitochondrial DNA, you are probably not a different race).
Cultural heritage: you can hide: just don't practice it. Being closeted is not a wonderful thing, but it's better than being beaten to death.
I wonder how many of these rich guys are actually guilty of how they made their wealth?
Most of them are not. The guilt comes in with dynastic wealth, when you start donating to art galleries and opera houses in order to not feel guilty about having not worked for your wealth, but instead had it handed to you.
And the people in this position *are* generally in need of therapy; in fact, they keep the entire New York Psychological association in business.
Ripping people off, manipulating folks, stealing from hard working middle class? Probably not, but maybe there is few.
Generally, the middle class, by which I assume you mean the blue collar workers who have had their jobs shipped overseas, and who are in the process of having the screws tightened even further via the Trans Pacific Partnership e.g. shipping off some of the remaining blue collar textile jobs to slave labor factories in Malaysia, don't have a lot of money to steal. Most of the first generation does it by creating something of value. The second and subsequent generations are the ones who become the landlords, in order to have a place to park and grow their money.
Yeah, the Americans had ONE first (first man on the moon). Russia had EVERY OTHER SPACE FIRST.
You win, America! Go USA!
Well, not *every* other space first... and lest we forget, both countries were pretty well bootstrapped with German missile technology. Here are some other U.S. firsts, apart from the whole landing on the moon thingy:
1. First human-made object to leave solar system 2. First communications satellite 3. First solar probe 4. First weather satellite 5. First object successfully recovered from orbit 6. First operational navigation satellite 7. First geosynchronous satellite 8. First probe to land using retrorockets 9. First probe to map the Moon 10. First manual control of a crewed spacecraft 11. First crewed spacecraft to change orbit 12. First rendezvous in space 13. First docking with another spacecraft 14. First crewed mission to leave Earth orbit 15. First to orbit the Moon 16. First spacecraft of any type to perform Trans-Earth injection 17. First successful flyby of Venus 18. First successful Mars flyby
I suppose we could count some of the SpaceX accomplishments, as well, given that Elon Musk has U.S. citizenship:
19. First privately funded, liquid-propellant rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit 20. First privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (Dragon) 21. First private company to send a spacecraft (Dragon) to the ISS 22. First private company to launch into geosynchronous orbit (ES-8) 23. First private company to deliver a vehicle beyond Earth orbit (DSCOVR)
You might pay dividends to shareholders, you know like companies did in the good old days...or use it for employee compensation or lots of other things. You might not build factories, but on the other hand you might if there were some advantages to doing so (rapid prototyping, flexible manufacturing, JIT with tighter chain) a company could do the right thing every once in a while.
Sorry, no. Dividends are a way to get out from under taxes, just like the employee disbursements that this article is complaining about. I'l *maybe* do one in order to have a paper loss, and end up being able to repatriate funds without paying taxes on them. I may also do it if I'm too tasty a takeover target, and a substantial amount of stock is outstanding (in which cause, I'm more likely to have the Cayman company buy company stock, with the company's own money, instead).
If I want to build a rapid prototyping facility, I'll do it with money already in the U.S., in order to reduce my liability.
If I want to buy chips and make it look like I'm a good guy, then I'll contract with Samsung to build a chip fab in the U.S. from which I'll buy the chips (which is exactly what Apple did, in fact).
But that's beside the point, point is you're going to need to use the money somewhere (and probably not in the tax haven where you're storing it). When you eventually move the money into whatever country you are going to use it in you'll have to pay taxes on it.
No. Very few countries tax you on the differential between the tax rate where the money was earned and where the money is used. The U.S. is one of the exceptions, and with a (max) 35% corporate income tax, and a (max) 15% state income tax, if you used a double Irish on the money in the first place (20%), then you are talking paying another 30% to get to the 50% tax that they want to extract from you.
This is why repatriation is a big deal for U.S. companies -- and why they refuse to do it.
The biggest problem is why Facebook UK made a loss (thus avoiding taxes) -- mostly it was because of the high prices of the letters a, b, c, e, f, k and o which it rents from Facebook US at extortionate rates.
The actual biggest problem: Someone fucked up, and they had to pay £4,327.
The main complaint is that multinationals offshore their profits by e.g. licensing key bits of IP from a subsidiary in a tax haven. 'We would have made a profit, but we paid $100 million to use the Facebook logo to Facebook Holdings (Cayman Islands). ' (not an actual quote).
So the answer is, the US government may collect some of it down the line but not the British government.
Unless they decided spending the money in Britain was a better idea than spending the money in the U.S..
Then the British government may collect some of it down the line but not the U.S. government.
Moral to this story: Be a desirable place to invest funds, and people will invest funds there.
If I could, I'd give the whole $20/hr to the employee,
Very altruistic, but illogical and unnecessary. If your employee is willing to work for you for $15/hr, why would you pay him $20/hr? Just because you have the money? You might.
I wouldn't.
If I had an extra $5/employee to throw around, and it cost me $15/employee, and I currently had 9 employees, rather than paying each of them the extra $5/hour -- I'd create 3 more jobs at $15/hour, and expand my business.
They do report the UK revenue accurately: it's 105 million pounds.
Oh really?
It may be legal, it's not honourable.
Since when have businesses, such as the East India Tea Company, ever given a flying F*ck about honour? Banks don't care, why should anyone else? Because corporate entities have high E.Q.'s, and are capable of "feeling bad"?
Change your laws, and you won't have this problem. Force them to execute the contracts in your country, rather than in Ireland.
Oh wait; you have that pesky little problem of being an E.U. member state, don't you? Sucks to be you, or at least sucks to be you with a higher corporate tax rate than any other E.U. member state...
I understand that part, what I don't get is what's the long game? They build a huge amount of capital in Ireland, Bermuda, the Caymans, etc. but then what? If they want to actually use that money for something in a country like the US they're going to have to pay taxes on it, no? Seems to me it's really a tax deferral strategy and not avoidance?
What would you use it for in the U.S.?
Build factories? What kind of idiot builds factories in the U.S.?
(1) Labor laws are more strict (2) There are more unfunded mandates on U.S. labor, since there's no single payer medical, etc. (3) Environmental laws are more strict (4) Raw materials, such as Lithium for batteries, would have to be imported (5) Component materials, such as chips, would have to be imported
It makes no sense; about the only thing of value to use that money for in the U.S. would probably be real estate in SF or NY, etc..
Also, I still don't understand how having $100m in overseas reserves you can't really use adds much value for shareholders, sure it adds some but because of the cost of actually using the money it seems like the value it adds would be roughly the same as repatriating the money and paying the taxes on it in the first place.
That's easy: you can spend it overseas without an additional tax burden.
Just don't do anything stupid, like spending it in the U.S., and you're golden.
I now have a monkey wrench for you... what if the copy was made involuntarily, against the will of the person being copied? Which one now has the moral right to "your stuff" (in which I include the relationship with the wife, and so on)?
Overdoing on magnesium can lead to low potassium levels. I assume you get checked, if you get liver panels.
If a stylus works for you... the general principle of a stylus is that it act as a point source, but still uses the meat-person as the antenna, by having a conductive area attached (usually including a coil) to the tip of the stylus.
This is actually why the stylus was not an option for either the robot, or the person with the prosthetic lower arms and hands (the initial test subject had lost both hands at a point below the elbow, but above the wrist). Running a conductive cable from the conductive area of the stylus back to a copper grounding patch with conductive adhesive enabled the use of the stylus. This was obviously not a long term solution (copper tape, conductive adhesive), mostly due to it being unwieldy and causing irritation, for the same reason, a conductive patch within the sock part of the prosthesis for over the amputated limb, between the prosthesis and the limb was also not an option.
Anyway if the stylus works for you, you either have thick calluses or big fingers, or both, such that your finger doesn't look enough like the other half of the capacitor over the screen as an insulator between the finger and the underlying conductive layer, for coupling to occur. Note that this can also happen if you have one of those protective clear adhesive "screen protectors" on. For most people, though, it's down to their fitness as an antenna, and a stylus wouldn't help (guess that's a differential diagnostic?).
You could always try cutting your finger nails and using the point of your finger instead of the flat of the tip, if it's the "big finger" thing... LOL... or just keep using the stylus, if it works... I suggest velcro tape around a non-contact part of the stylus (or that'll break the circuit to the stylus!), and a velcro patch somewhere on the device itself to stick it to. And then maybe twine or dental floss between the velcro on one or the other... but if you are going to do the twine thing anyway, and don't care about it hanging there... duct tape also works.:)
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That's not all that impressive of a difference even with your ass pull numbers after inflation...
It's pretty impressive, actually. $25,000 in inflation adjusted dollars would be $199,670.06 today. Not $500,000.
So that's a 2.5X increase in malpractice insurance costs.
But wait there's more
Radically restrict The FDA.
Because I'm sure health costs will go down when Pharma can do what it wants, I mean obviously its the FDA keeping all these drugs at insanely high prices by not catering to Pharma's every need.
They are preventing international competition on pricing, which is why you are not allowed to import prescription drugs, for personal use, from much cheaper pharmacies in Canada, even though they are supplied by the same companies, or even manufactured in the U.S..
So Pharma is pretty much doing what it wants right now, and deregulating the drug market by stopping the revolving door between the FDA and Pharma would be one of the steps necessary to prevent the FDA from passing such regulations.
Allow reprocessing of spent fuel. France, UK, India, and Russia manage to do it. Might be more expensive but it gets rid of long term storage issues and drastically reduces long term environmental risk.
And we already have a mothballed plant to do it.
We're just not doing it because of an executive order by Jimmy Carter, who was convinced that reprocessed fuel would all be weapons grade (depends on how much reprocessing you do, actually; you can stop before you reach that point), and that as a result, it would contribute to nuclear proliferation.
Seems to have worked with North Korea. Oh. Snap. It *didn't* work with North Korea. Jimmy Carter's "bad"...
People with money have clout; people making $15/hour generally do not.
Of course they do, which is why complaining about the poor people making the rich feel uncomfortable is so ridiculous.
Because clout and feeling uncomfortable are opposite ends of the same axis in your book?
I'm pretty sure the opposite end of the "clout" axis is "no clout", while the opposite end of the "uncomfortable" axis is "comfortable".
i can agree that cultural heritage isn't the same thing as a racial one. but it's still nothing close to the acquired trait of wealth.
It is, when you are talking about "the trappings of wealth" vs. "the trappings of culture".
Both are forms of self-identification to the larger society. You don't *have* to engage in self-identification, whereas with race, you can't *not* engage in self-identification, without being a hermit or some other kind of recluse. Also, culture can be acquired.
Which of the following statements is correct?
You are misrepresenting my staatement by giving me a choice between three items which I did not address, nor do I care about.
The Canonical name of the machine (the forward address) and the IP address delegation (the reverse address MUST match.
This guarantees that two authoritative sources agree that the machine is who it says it is, rather than having been spoofed.
It really doesn't matter if that's "geekmail.io" or "mail.geekmail.io", the things *MUST* match, or most anti-SPAM systems since circa 1997 are going to reject email from them.
If someone can't set up their forward and reverse addresses for their designated MX system correctly, they are unable to tell the difference between a CNAME record and an A record. If that's the case, it's doubtful they could correctly set up TXT records correct for SPF, or set up their signing certs for DNSSEC correctly, either.
Read the article. Except for #1 and #5, he explicitly says he did all of these things.
Do I trust him, or do I trust the contents of his DNS server. I think I'm going to go with the DNS server.
dig -t MX geekmail.io
geekmail.io. 899 IN MX 10 mail.geekmail.io.
nslookup mail.geekmail.io
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mail.geekmail.io
Address: 139.162.197.129
host 139.162.197.129
129.197.162.139.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer geekmail.io. ----- OOPS
The featured article mentions having set up not only SPF and DKIM but also DMARC, reverse DNS, and checking against blacklists. Which step was missed?
His reverse DNS doesn't match the forward DNS canonical name record. See my other post.
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your issue is likely that you havent set up your dns security records and spf correctly
To which "dns security records" do you refer?
Most likely he's referring to the fact that The blog site identifies the person doing the "anonymous" complaining as Jody Ribton, and if we look through the cached articles where he's talking about setting up his mail server, we see he's calling his service "GeekMail", and he's futze uf the PTR record such that it doesn't match the SMTP banner:
host geekmail.io ... ...
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mail.geekmail.io
Address: 139.162.197.129
host 139.162.197.129
129.197.162.139.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer geekmail.io.
Notice that the reverse record is not pointing to a reverse name of "mail.geekmail.io", but is instead pointing to "geekmail.io".
So his forward and reverse records do not match.
Further, looking up his IP address: http://www.anti-abuse.org/mult...
We can see that he isn't being RBL'ed, so it's just that he's screwed the pooch on his DNS setup.
I'd check the rest of the setup, but it's "game over" because of the inaddr.arpa entry being wrong.
Did you even read the article? There's not much more than the summary, but there he does make note that reverse DNS and SPF records, among other things, were setup:
I've done this before, ...: not on any blacklists, reverse DNS set up, SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies in place, etcetera. (Side note: mail-tester.com and Port25 are great for checking your setup.)
The near-conclusion quote is his real point:
...from Microsoft's Postmaster Troubleshooting page:[...]
They also want them to enroll in join Return Path's Sender Score Certified Email program, update your Junk Email Reporting Program (JMRP) account with the new IPs (this is a free Microsoft account you have to sign into in order to enter your IPs). They don't want them using dynamic IPs. They want them to go to the Sender and ISP Services (since they count as an ISP, given what they are attempting to do: clone fastmail).
It'd be useful if they provided the 421/550 error codes from attempts to send mail to Hotmail, in order to identify the subcodes to see where they've gone wrong.
P.S.: They may also be being screwed by their antivirus software inserting headers which Microsoft is not prepared to trust.
It is called the "Dunning-Kruger" effect and it is well-established.
Otherwise known as the "You kids get off my lawn, unless you have more letters after your name than I do" effect, or the "How to be a condescending expert" effect. There's a reason they won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for the paper. The fundamental presumption is that, even knowing of the effect, you will not be able to avoid it, and therefore your opinion should be discarded.
Give away all your money, get a job at Walmart and join the fight for $15 and hour and a union.
You are *DRASTICALLY* more likely to be successful in unionizing Walmart by *NOT* giving away all your money, and instead funding the campaign towards unionization of Walmart. People with money have clout; people making $15/hour generally do not.
You are not very bright if you can't immediately discern the difference between an intrinsic characteristic, i.e. racial / cultural heritage, with an acquired trait that is easily changeable (being rich).
I was personally with you until you threw in "cultural heritage".
Racial: you generally can't hide (although I would challenge most people to discern the difference between a Palestinian and a Jew, without culturally mandated clothing, or being Arabic or Jewish themselves; if you have the same matrilineal mitochondrial DNA, you are probably not a different race).
Cultural heritage: you can hide: just don't practice it. Being closeted is not a wonderful thing, but it's better than being beaten to death.
I wonder how many of these rich guys are actually guilty of how they made their wealth?
Most of them are not. The guilt comes in with dynastic wealth, when you start donating to art galleries and opera houses in order to not feel guilty about having not worked for your wealth, but instead had it handed to you.
And the people in this position *are* generally in need of therapy; in fact, they keep the entire New York Psychological association in business.
Ripping people off, manipulating folks, stealing from hard working middle class? Probably not, but maybe there is few.
Generally, the middle class, by which I assume you mean the blue collar workers who have had their jobs shipped overseas, and who are in the process of having the screws tightened even further via the Trans Pacific Partnership e.g. shipping off some of the remaining blue collar textile jobs to slave labor factories in Malaysia, don't have a lot of money to steal. Most of the first generation does it by creating something of value. The second and subsequent generations are the ones who become the landlords, in order to have a place to park and grow their money.
Yeah, the Americans had ONE first (first man on the moon). Russia had EVERY OTHER SPACE FIRST.
You win, America! Go USA!
Well, not *every* other space first... and lest we forget, both countries were pretty well bootstrapped with German missile technology. Here are some other U.S. firsts, apart from the whole landing on the moon thingy:
1. First human-made object to leave solar system
2. First communications satellite
3. First solar probe
4. First weather satellite
5. First object successfully recovered from orbit
6. First operational navigation satellite
7. First geosynchronous satellite
8. First probe to land using retrorockets
9. First probe to map the Moon
10. First manual control of a crewed spacecraft
11. First crewed spacecraft to change orbit
12. First rendezvous in space
13. First docking with another spacecraft
14. First crewed mission to leave Earth orbit
15. First to orbit the Moon
16. First spacecraft of any type to perform Trans-Earth injection
17. First successful flyby of Venus
18. First successful Mars flyby
I suppose we could count some of the SpaceX accomplishments, as well, given that Elon Musk has U.S. citizenship:
19. First privately funded, liquid-propellant rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit
20. First privately funded company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft (Dragon)
21. First private company to send a spacecraft (Dragon) to the ISS
22. First private company to launch into geosynchronous orbit (ES-8)
23. First private company to deliver a vehicle beyond Earth orbit (DSCOVR)
And that's just the highlights reel.
You might pay dividends to shareholders, you know like companies did in the good old days...or use it for employee compensation or lots of other things. You might not build factories, but on the other hand you might if there were some advantages to doing so (rapid prototyping, flexible manufacturing, JIT with tighter chain) a company could do the right thing every once in a while.
Sorry, no. Dividends are a way to get out from under taxes, just like the employee disbursements that this article is complaining about. I'l *maybe* do one in order to have a paper loss, and end up being able to repatriate funds without paying taxes on them. I may also do it if I'm too tasty a takeover target, and a substantial amount of stock is outstanding (in which cause, I'm more likely to have the Cayman company buy company stock, with the company's own money, instead).
If I want to build a rapid prototyping facility, I'll do it with money already in the U.S., in order to reduce my liability.
If I want to buy chips and make it look like I'm a good guy, then I'll contract with Samsung to build a chip fab in the U.S. from which I'll buy the chips (which is exactly what Apple did, in fact).
But that's beside the point, point is you're going to need to use the money somewhere (and probably not in the tax haven where you're storing it). When you eventually move the money into whatever country you are going to use it in you'll have to pay taxes on it.
No. Very few countries tax you on the differential between the tax rate where the money was earned and where the money is used. The U.S. is one of the exceptions, and with a (max) 35% corporate income tax, and a (max) 15% state income tax, if you used a double Irish on the money in the first place (20%), then you are talking paying another 30% to get to the 50% tax that they want to extract from you.
This is why repatriation is a big deal for U.S. companies -- and why they refuse to do it.
The biggest problem is why Facebook UK made a loss (thus avoiding taxes) -- mostly it was because of the high prices of the letters a, b, c, e, f, k and o which it rents from Facebook US at extortionate rates.
The actual biggest problem: Someone fucked up, and they had to pay £4,327.
Benefit from children learning about science instead of building a Mad Max style dystopia on their own, powered by juvenile crime?
You clearly have not visited an inner city neighborhood in the U.S., nor a U.S. public school, in a long time, have you?
The main complaint is that multinationals offshore their profits by e.g. licensing key bits of IP from a subsidiary in a tax haven. 'We would have made a profit, but we paid $100 million to use the Facebook logo to Facebook Holdings (Cayman Islands). ' (not an actual quote).
So the answer is, the US government may collect some of it down the line but not the British government.
Unless they decided spending the money in Britain was a better idea than spending the money in the U.S..
Then the British government may collect some of it down the line but not the U.S. government.
Moral to this story: Be a desirable place to invest funds, and people will invest funds there.
If I could, I'd give the whole $20/hr to the employee,
Very altruistic, but illogical and unnecessary. If your employee is willing to work for you for $15/hr, why would you pay him $20/hr? Just because you have the money? You might.
I wouldn't.
If I had an extra $5/employee to throw around, and it cost me $15/employee, and I currently had 9 employees, rather than paying each of them the extra $5/hour -- I'd create 3 more jobs at $15/hour, and expand my business.
That's good business.
Oh really?
It may be legal, it's not honourable.
Since when have businesses, such as the East India Tea Company, ever given a flying F*ck about honour? Banks don't care, why should anyone else? Because corporate entities have high E.Q.'s, and are capable of "feeling bad"?
Change your laws, and you won't have this problem. Force them to execute the contracts in your country, rather than in Ireland.
Oh wait; you have that pesky little problem of being an E.U. member state, don't you? Sucks to be you, or at least sucks to be you with a higher corporate tax rate than any other E.U. member state...
I understand that part, what I don't get is what's the long game? They build a huge amount of capital in Ireland, Bermuda, the Caymans, etc. but then what? If they want to actually use that money for something in a country like the US they're going to have to pay taxes on it, no? Seems to me it's really a tax deferral strategy and not avoidance?
What would you use it for in the U.S.?
Build factories? What kind of idiot builds factories in the U.S.?
(1) Labor laws are more strict
(2) There are more unfunded mandates on U.S. labor, since there's no single payer medical, etc.
(3) Environmental laws are more strict
(4) Raw materials, such as Lithium for batteries, would have to be imported
(5) Component materials, such as chips, would have to be imported
It makes no sense; about the only thing of value to use that money for in the U.S. would probably be real estate in SF or NY, etc..
Also, I still don't understand how having $100m in overseas reserves you can't really use adds much value for shareholders, sure it adds some but because of the cost of actually using the money it seems like the value it adds would be roughly the same as repatriating the money and paying the taxes on it in the first place.
That's easy: you can spend it overseas without an additional tax burden.
Just don't do anything stupid, like spending it in the U.S., and you're golden.
Which one has a moral right to your stuff?
Both, of course.
I now have a monkey wrench for you... what if the copy was made involuntarily, against the will of the person being copied? Which one now has the moral right to "your stuff" (in which I include the relationship with the wife, and so on)?
Overdoing on magnesium can lead to low potassium levels. I assume you get checked, if you get liver panels.
If a stylus works for you ... the general principle of a stylus is that it act as a point source, but still uses the meat-person as the antenna, by having a conductive area attached (usually including a coil) to the tip of the stylus.
This is actually why the stylus was not an option for either the robot, or the person with the prosthetic lower arms and hands (the initial test subject had lost both hands at a point below the elbow, but above the wrist). Running a conductive cable from the conductive area of the stylus back to a copper grounding patch with conductive adhesive enabled the use of the stylus. This was obviously not a long term solution (copper tape, conductive adhesive), mostly due to it being unwieldy and causing irritation, for the same reason, a conductive patch within the sock part of the prosthesis for over the amputated limb, between the prosthesis and the limb was also not an option.
Anyway if the stylus works for you, you either have thick calluses or big fingers, or both, such that your finger doesn't look enough like the other half of the capacitor over the screen as an insulator between the finger and the underlying conductive layer, for coupling to occur. Note that this can also happen if you have one of those protective clear adhesive "screen protectors" on. For most people, though, it's down to their fitness as an antenna, and a stylus wouldn't help (guess that's a differential diagnostic?).
You could always try cutting your finger nails and using the point of your finger instead of the flat of the tip, if it's the "big finger" thing... LOL... or just keep using the stylus, if it works... I suggest velcro tape around a non-contact part of the stylus (or that'll break the circuit to the stylus!), and a velcro patch somewhere on the device itself to stick it to. And then maybe twine or dental floss between the velcro on one or the other... but if you are going to do the twine thing anyway, and don't care about it hanging there... duct tape also works. :)